Joshua Compston's vision for the World

The form of the book, compiled rather than written, by Darren Coffield, Compston’s friend and one of the original artists he showed, mirrors his own chaotic lifestyle, lurching from one friendship or anecdote to the next. We are never given a clear picture — financial, temporal, emotional, artistic or otherwise — but are instead left to piece together the clues as in a booze-fuelled whodunit murder mystery. The Art Newspaper